Tag: contemplative Christian
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portable silence: tethering to goodness
“…silence is above all a quality of the heart that can stay with us even in our conversations with others. It is a portable cell that we carry with us wherever we go. From it we speak to those in need and to it we return after our words have borne fruit.”—The Way of the…
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how to sustain work rooted in love
For our work in the world to be grounded, sustainable, & rooted in love, we must continually attend to our inner work. Inner work includes healing from white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, homophobia, etc (systems of oppression harm oppressed & oppressors in different ways). Examples of inner work:
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using the enneagram in discernment
The Enneagram is a helpful tool that can point to specific red and green flags for discernment. While there is endless diversity among people of the same Enneagram type, sometimes groupings around commonalities are helpful, especially regarding the three centers of intelligence: thinking (logic/objectivity), feeling (feelings and motives of self and others), and doing (purposeful,…
Lindsay L. O'Connor 